So, Luminato approached a wide range of African-Canadian artists, scholars and community leaders to attend a meeting to simply discuss the idea of bringing the show to Toronto. The reaction, especially on social media, was so immediately condemning, with one activist reaching out to the organizer of the British boycott for advice, that Luminato quickly backed away from the idea. The group is still meeting on April 22 to discuss Exhibit B, but it will be a rather hypothetical discussion: On Tuesday, the festival announced that it “has determined that 2016 is not the right time to present Exhibit B in Toronto.”
Tag: 04.10.15
Christopher Wheeldon In Wonderland: “An American in Paris” Is Ballet Choreographer’s Dream Come True
His staging (direction as well as dance) of the Gershwin show, just opened on Broadway after knockout success in Paris, “perfectly encapsulates the artistic character of the boyish-looking, 42-year-old Wheeldon: a sophisticated balletmaker who is a hopeless fan of razzle-dazzle.” Sarah Kaufman tells how he came to the project.
Ivan Doig, A Writer Who Cared About Getting Every Word Right
Doig, who died in Seattle on April 9 at age 75: “I don’t think of myself as a ‘Western’ writer. … To me, language — the substance on the page, that poetry under the prose — is the ultimate ‘region,’ the true home, for a writer.”
Now They’re Remaking Books As Game Apps
Play on your tablet or phone as Sherlock, as the White Rabbit, as Mr. Crab in a fable from Nigeria – and experience books or folk tales in a new way. Or at least, that’s the hope.
The Most Honest Show About Addiction Ever On TV Is A Comedy, And About To End
Edie Falco, who plays Nurse Jackie: “The story of addiction is that they are often highly lovable individuals — charismatic, charming, and easy to love. … They systematically go about destroying all those feelings of attachment to the people around them.”
Just Before Its Final Concert, The Green Bay Symphony Had Hundreds Of Tickets Available
“On the Friday before their final performance, only 480 tickets had been sold. ‘Trying to get Green Bay residents into a classics concert— even this one this Saturday night— is very difficult.'”
Is One Of Egypt’s Most Celebrated Paintings A 19th-Century Italian Fake?
“The plaster artifact shows three couples of geese amongst tufts of grass, and was supposedly found by Italian Egyptologist Luigi Vassalli, then a curator of the Museum Bulaq, in the Atet chapel at the Nefermaat funerary complex at Meidum. Tiradritti thinks it is highly likely that Vassalli is the real artist behind the geese.”
Garry Trudeau Explains Why Satire – And Charlie Hebdo – Shouldn’t ‘Punch Downward’
“Satire punches up, against authority of all kinds, the little guy against the powerful. Great French satirists like Molière and Daumier always punched up. … Ridiculing the non-privileged is almost never funny — it’s just mean. By punching downward, by attacking a powerless, disenfranchised minority with crude, vulgar drawings closer to graffiti than cartoons, Charlie wandered into the realm of hate speech.”
Berlin Versus The ‘Sharing Economy’
“Many view the battle against the vacation rentals as being decisive in the effort to wrestle a piece of Berlin back from speculators and tourists.” But the battle is not going well.
Should Critics Reviewing Translations Know The Work In Its Original Language?
“If you don’t know the poet’s original work, what are you reviewing? But when you whittle the already small pool of poetry critics down to those who are multilingual or translators themselves, the result is that hardly anyone reviews translations, and in turn fewer people read them. If nobody reads poetry, less than nobody reads international poetry.”